My sister found her wedding dress and it's gorgeous! Hanging up, I didn't like it, but once she put it on, omg, I was hoping she'd get it. It was one of the first dresses she tried on and she tried on a bunch after and felt like she was 'cheating' on her dress so she knew it was the one. She also settled on bridesmaid dresses (yay!) Since I'm the MOH, mine's a little different. Here are the pics. I can't find a pic of the other bridesmaid dresses but the colors are the same, the lace part is just smaller, it runs across the chest area only, and there's no sash on the others. In case you're wondering, I plan on walking around all night like that model w/ my hand on my hip and pouting *g*
Well, I've written the first chapter of my new romantic suspense. I'm vera excited about this story. It's different than anything I've done before and involves more research than I realized, but I'm really excited about it and hope to turn it into a series. As always, I'm freaking out that I won't be able to write the amount of words I've planned. Is anyone else like that? It isn't until about page 150 that I feel a sense of being able to 'make it'. Obviously I'm not talking about my novellas, but for all my full lengths, I experience this sense of impending doom until I hit a certain point in the story. I think I'm afraid the words will just stop and I'll completely run out of ideas. So far it hasn't happened, but I have nightmares at the thought. Does anyone else go through that or am I a lone freak?
Since it's Valentine’s Day I wanted to do something special. I'm cleaning out the bookshelves (again) for my hubby and decided to turn this normally sad process into a contest. Why is that a good thing for you? It’s very simple. In honor of this holiday tell me who your favorite romantic couple is and why, and your name gets entered into the contest. Your favorite couples don't have to be from a book. They can be from a movie, tv show, whatever, but I am more partial to books. (Or, you can join my newsletter and automatically be entered into every contest from now on.)
I plan to have a contest every month. I’m embarrassed to say that half of these have never been read so many of them are basically new. A good lot of them have been gifts, etc. or I’ve gotten as extras at book signings and I’ve come to the realization I’m not going to be making a dent in this pile anytime soon. This list will also change every month b/c I'll be adding more books. I usually donate to the library, but I’d love giving these to people I know want them.
I write at home and work. At work I bring my flash drive and transfer everything when I get home. I'm crazy about backing up, etc. but yesterday I decided not to bother emailing myself with my newly added scene b/c it was only 1,000 words. Um, yeah, the stupid file was corrupted when I got home and I can't recover anything. It's not a lot, but it still blows, especially since it was an integral part of my h/h's first smexin scene and I struggled with it. Grrrrr! Currently banging my head on the desk! So please people, back up your work :)
It's synopsis time again. I always wait until the last possible second to work on these retched things, but this time, I've decided to do it before I've finished the next three or so rounds of edits. Hopefully by the time I'm ready to submit, the stupid thing will already be done. We'll see how that works out though ;)
It's Wednesday so I'm over at Writers Gone Wild again. Today's topic: Struggles of a Writer.
The blog site Breezing Through is having an 'Anti-Valentine's Day' contest. I like the concept that we don't need one day a year to celebrate romance.
I'm finished with my current manuscript! It still needs to go through a couple rounds of edits, but *sigh* it's done. Over the weekend I forced myself to just write and ignore technology (as much as I could) and I knocked out close to 17 thousand words. I keep my word count up every day, but I haven't written that much in such a short time in quite a while. There isn't much that compares to the feeling of finishing another story. Apart from the obvious *g*, it's like finding that expensive dress marked down 90 percent.
